Wassily Off-White

We did
Yes, that is a can of “ITZEN off-white” poured on two iconic Wassily chairs.
Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair (1925) from Knoll is now 100 years old.  A classic chair known for the continuous tubular steel frame finished in chrome and taut leather seating and arm surfaces.  It is named after Wassily Kandinsky, a colleague at the Bauhaus and known for his abstract art full of color, linework and manipulated shapes.
A chair designed by an architect, named after an artist and now a pour of ITZEN onto the second 100 years.

*location has moved in the studio. part of the “figuring it out”

Details
1 gallon of “ITZEN off-white” by Sherwin Williams
(2) Wassily chairs, polished chrome with black belting leather

Artist(s)
William Itzen & Jana Itzen

End of an Era (don’t cry)

Petrified roll
The drawings are cast, memorializing the process that can be 99% digital, yet in 2023 still required a printed set of construction documents to permit.  A beautiful nod to the end of a very long era in architecture, the construction documents, the permitting process and the construction coordination with city inspections.
Architects and engineers used to walk the streets with a roll of drawings tucked under their arm.  An obvious identifier.
Inspired by petriified wood, this sculpture is in process.  Please do not touch so we can preserve the process of permanently encasing the permitted set of drawings for 2032 N Broadway.
The cylinder is wrapped in Dan Kipper’s leather drawing roll holder.  Dan was William’s neighbor growing up in Riverside, second generation surveyor.  It was a posthumous gift to William.  The backdrop continues with passed on drafting tools from Dan, but also from William’s own father Bernie who was a KC-135 navigator.

Details
The actual permitted set of drawings for 2032 N Broadway, wet stamped and dated
6L of ecopoxy using Sangria & Royal Purple metallic pigments

Artist
William Itzen

Golden AWN

What, how, where, when, when, who?
Emerging from the ashes, the AWN.
Great ideas sometimes lead to painful processes. Frustrating conversations. Aggravating decision making. Strained relationships. More tense conversations. Helplessness. Delays. Excuses.
When we dove head first into the lighting design, the technology behind Lutron’s AWN was a no-brainer type of future proofing choice.  Even though the technology was already a few years old when we started, the road was not yet paved… as we found out over the days, months and hundreds of emails and phone calls.
The AWN is a wireless node inside of or adjacent to a light fixture.  Allowing for wireless controls.

Details
Sycamore and oak ashes sprinkled on “X” 3d (mis)prints
Gold metallic spray paint on Lutron AWN

Artist(s)
William Itzen & Dieter Itzen